Tejeda's Market

Can you see that? Yes. Perfect. So first I'll start with a little bit of background. So at Access Architects, we do mostly architecture, obviously, but we're also developers. But when we develop a project, it has a strong basis in architecture and it's a very strong priority for architecture. We try to create communities and a sense of place. In this particular case, this community is very open and connected to the neighborhood. It has 58 town homes, very modern design, open floor plan concepts for the units. The site has a lot of open space with n The buildings are green. We're using passive solar. As you can see with the boxes, shading, the windows, energy efficient design. We have a lot of the units have private yards and balconies or Juliet balconies. And there is a lot of visitor parking, even though it's not required by code. But I think that's important to respect the surrounding neighborhood. So this site is approximately 2. 37 acres. It's fairly large. And it is in a CB zone, which allows multifamily. But not all the units are able to face the street because of the size of the development. And so a plan development is required by the city. The proposed project complies with all of the other developments. All the other requirements of the CB zone. And it is designed to meet several of the objectives of the plan development process, which are housing, mobility, and master plan implementation. And I will go over these briefly, even though they're more detailed into the actual application itself. So first paragraph C to housing. The proposal should include housing types that are not commonly found in the existing neighborhood, but are of a scale that is typical to the neighborhood. So, So, The smaller yards and footprints of these town homes, which are about 1600 square feet, mean that this development will make community pathways, green spaces and amenities available to the larger community. And these new and more efficient designed dwelling units will also be highly energy efficient, helping to keep overall housing costs under control. Second is D one mobility. We're creating a new interior block walkway connections that connect through a block or improve connectivity to transit. Or the bicycle network. And the project has a connection mid block from Glendale. And it connects through the project to the amenities and back to the public streets. Lastly, F one master plan implementation. This project is directly tailored to fulfill the intent of the West side master plan. The master plan has three direct goals for this. For this neighborhood, and it specifically refers to the intersection of Glendale and Navajo as a node. So here we're lucky to have a direct explanation of what the master plan requires for this site. The direct goals for the master plan are residential density, creating a viable mixed use nodes, and encouraging redevelopment within the neighborhoods through compatible higher density residential development. And of course, not every project should be required to meet all the goals of the zone, but our project happens to do that. So the first step described by the master plan is that the additional density may increase the demand enough in the immediate area to attract additional businesses to the node or encourage local business development. So we added some live work units. So all the units that are facing Glendale and Navajo streets are live work, which means that they have a commercial component on the lower level. So this basically this project by creating additional density will generate interest for commercial right now. What is described in this in the master plan is that the neighborhood doesn't have enough density and so businesses opened right now are And so the first step described in the master plan is to create the density of housing, which will then support the local businesses. So our project will help that since it already includes live work units, which can turn into businesses. And with that, I can conclude that our project meets all the intent of the master plan, and that the plan development, we hope will be approved. Thank you. I'm getting a couple of questions that are coming in from the Facebook so I'm going to paraphrase some of them. But the first one was can you define what the live work spaces look So will the, will they rent as separate units or are they actually the same unit. Can you just explain that a little bit. So let me see if I can find a picture that describes that pretty well. Okay, this is an example of one of the units that is facing Navajo Street, and again, all the units facing Navajo Street and Glendale are that same type. As you can see, the unit has a front yard. But as you come into the front yard, you have the choice to go into the dwelling with the door on the left. And it also has a large glass door open to the commercial part of the live work. And so that's an area that could be used for, for example, a photographer or an accountant or, you know, a n And the great thing about these is that since the CB zone which this project is in is both commercial and multifamily. The, the tenants will obtain very easily a business license to run from their, from their dwelling unit or the lower portion of the dwelling units since that is already a commercial zone. So I think to completely answer the question I think. Does that answer the question. Yes, I think that puts a finer point on it. Thank you. I wanted to address this earlier but there was another question about just traffic and parking in the area so if you don't mind could you just kind of explain what you had previously talked about with visitor parking and that type of thing. Sure. So, in this zone. We'required to provide two parking spaces per unit. And so we've provided a two car garage per unit. And there's no other requirements, but we've chosen to provide additional parking since we had the space to do so. So you can see on the, on the site plan, the additional visitor parking, which will help so that we don't have visitors parking on the street for example, or, or kind of add, add to the, to the traffic in the area. Thank you. Another question came in. Are these units required to be live work or could they be 100% residential so could they be two residential units kind of stacked on top of one another or do they have to be split between commercial and residential. They don't have to be in fact there's a connection inside the unit to that live work space. So, a person could use that additional space as a studio or, They don't have to run a business. But the idea with a master plan is that you create the density first of the housing, and then businesses will develop and so these units are capable to turn into a live work but they don't have to be at the beginning. Thank you. Give me just one second. Of course. Can you tell me how much the average unit will cost. That's hard to say at this time, but, and we don't even know if the units will be for sale or for rent. But these are definitely going to be, Okay. I'm just seeing if any additional questions have come in. So a resident has asked, is there a chance that the development becomes 100% residential and that we lose some of the commercial nodes or will the those units be restricted to commercial uses, the lower level units. And then the idea behind the master plan. The city's master plan is to first create density so that the rest of the node can survive. I mean right now, the issue is, Thank you. This next question was asked but it's not necessarily a question for you. Although if you can answer it, I'd appreciate that but do So there's no doubt that surrounding properties value would go up. Anytime that we've developed projects. That's what's happened. So, we, we just finished a couple years ago project on Main Street and 15 South. And the units sold very quickly and it's helping cleaning up the neighborhood by bringing residents that are owners. It's great. It's helping the surrounding properties. Thank you. I don't see any additional questions coming in about this proposed development but I'd For those of you that are watching. The next step is that this will go to the planning commission for review. I just did see another question come in. I would Sure. So I think they would be in the same vision as the master plan, which are, There could be, Thank you. So it could be, Thank you. I'm just going to let the audience know that I'm out of my prepared questions. If you have additional questions, you'd The kind of final thing that I do have prepared that I'd The proposal has been sent to the planning commission. So I'm going to take the next step for folks that want to engage on this project. So the community council won't be taking a position. We exist to just get folks involved and provide civic engagement opportunities. So we just wanted to provide this information. So I'm going to share a link to the PDF that we've been using on the presentation and to the planning commission so that folks that watch either this live right now, or that watch the recording have an opportunity to weigh in but Pierre I just